Cycling injuries
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dan_bo
How much does it cost to Oldham?
Thought we was talking about me not the victims.....
vickster
Legendary Member
Oops rtfm before using
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
My result of a speed wobble on a TT sprint at the end wasn't as bad fortunately. It had happened before on a tt modified road bike at 30mph and I was able to sprint through and hold it. This was a new TT bike and it happened at 26-27mph and I couldn't sprint through it or hold it
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Shortandcrisp
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My result of a speed wobble on a TT sprint at the end wasn't as bad fortunately. It had happened before on a tt modified road bike at 30mph and I was able to sprint through and hold it. This was a new TT bike and it happened at 26-27mph and I couldn't sprint through it or hold it
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Ouch!
In my case it would have been better for me in the long term to have fallen off on Tarmac and broken a few bones!
But it is what it is.
Racing roadkill
Guru
3 times. 1 was very bad, 1 was quite bad, and one was self inflicted, so doesn't count.
greekonabike
President of the 'Democratic Republic' of GOAB
- Location
- Kent
Fortunately I've not had an accident for about twenty years but I remember the last one vividly.
I was about ten years old and riding a chrome bmx with black mag wheels (I seem to remember putting these wheels in the freezer for some reason).
The stage was set and all the kids from my road were lining the pavement. We'd made a ramp out of some scraps of ply wood and some house bricks. I went to the corner of the road and pedalled furiously down towards the ramp. As my front wheel hit the ramp one of the layers of bricks gave way and I ended up sliding down the pavement before crumpling into a pile by a tree. I remember a lot of blood and road rash. I was winded so badly I still have bad thoughts about it.
As bad as it was it didn't stop me from trying to jump my next bmx (the chrome one was totalled) off the large walls down at the seafront.
GOAB
I was about ten years old and riding a chrome bmx with black mag wheels (I seem to remember putting these wheels in the freezer for some reason).
The stage was set and all the kids from my road were lining the pavement. We'd made a ramp out of some scraps of ply wood and some house bricks. I went to the corner of the road and pedalled furiously down towards the ramp. As my front wheel hit the ramp one of the layers of bricks gave way and I ended up sliding down the pavement before crumpling into a pile by a tree. I remember a lot of blood and road rash. I was winded so badly I still have bad thoughts about it.
As bad as it was it didn't stop me from trying to jump my next bmx (the chrome one was totalled) off the large walls down at the seafront.
GOAB
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
Had a collision in '85, Over the bars and dislocated my shoulder.
Since then, nothing much really. I've had more cycling-related hangovers than injuries!
Since then, nothing much really. I've had more cycling-related hangovers than injuries!
AlanW
Legendary Member
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- Not to sure?
Two knee operations on the same knee, and broken both my collar bones. First the left side during a pile up in a road race, then the other side just seven weeks last when a dog ran out in front of me!
jongooligan
Legendary Member
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- Behind bars
Been off plenty of times but this one sticks in my mind.
MTB had been in LBS for I can't remember what. Picked it up, chucked it into the back of the car and drove to local fells. Jumped on bike and headed straight downhill on a track I know really well - there's a sharp bend at the bottom. Turned handlebars into bend - front wheel doesn't change direction so I go straight on into tree. Bust face but nothing broken.
The thing is, the same idiot who left my bike in this condition had previously forgotten to reattach the front brake cable on my road bike. I never let him touch a bike of mine after this one though.
MTB had been in LBS for I can't remember what. Picked it up, chucked it into the back of the car and drove to local fells. Jumped on bike and headed straight downhill on a track I know really well - there's a sharp bend at the bottom. Turned handlebars into bend - front wheel doesn't change direction so I go straight on into tree. Bust face but nothing broken.
The thing is, the same idiot who left my bike in this condition had previously forgotten to reattach the front brake cable on my road bike. I never let him touch a bike of mine after this one though.
Worked for an insurance firm a while back and during my induction, they told me a few "humerous" claims submitted. One I remember was ...
"I had to swerve all across the road before I managed to hit him"
midlife
Guru
Fell off quite a few times when younger but the most embarrassing was at the end of a grass track race in York. Monster sprint for the line then forgot I was riding fixed......just sort of stopped pedalling while upright and waited to freewheel but didn't !
Arms and legs cartwheeling all over the shop and then unceremoniously on the grass in front of a large crowd
Have I said before I hated grass track
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Shaun
Arms and legs cartwheeling all over the shop and then unceremoniously on the grass in front of a large crowd
Have I said before I hated grass track
.Shaun
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- the post-brexit wasteland
two major ones (i.e. required hospital visits)
1) my fault; lost concentration on a small group ride and touched wheels, went down like a sack of spuds and fractured collar bone ligaments; 3 months off the bike
2) knocked off; car turned right into my path without indicating and i hit it at about 25kmh. the force of the crash wrote off a steel frameset and re-fractured my collar bone ligaments. got just shy of five figures from the insurance, which financed the bike in the profile pic…
last week i came off due to hitting a tram line at too oblique an angle. bit of road rash, road home ok but took next day off due to stiffness and not being able to sit comfortably…
1) my fault; lost concentration on a small group ride and touched wheels, went down like a sack of spuds and fractured collar bone ligaments; 3 months off the bike
2) knocked off; car turned right into my path without indicating and i hit it at about 25kmh. the force of the crash wrote off a steel frameset and re-fractured my collar bone ligaments. got just shy of five figures from the insurance, which financed the bike in the profile pic…
last week i came off due to hitting a tram line at too oblique an angle. bit of road rash, road home ok but took next day off due to stiffness and not being able to sit comfortably…
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
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- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
I tend not to depart from the bike in an unplanned manner too often despite best attempts. When I do, I usually land with cat like grace and the minimum of damage. There have been a couple of injuries over the years that stand out in my memory.
Downhilling the MTB in my early 20s (Before DH was a separate sport) and while bumping down a rocky farm track half of my handlebar came off in my hand at about 20mph. I was pretty badly beaten up but only flesh wounds so limped off the hill and phoned dad to come and pick me up.
More recently, about 18 months ago tried riding down some irregular old mill steps, again on the MTB. It went wrong and turned into a fall but I must have smacked my knee on the hard stone flags at the bottom. When it was Xrayed 2 weeks later because I was still in pain it was discovered that I had cracked the knee cap straight across. I had been riding my bike to work all the week prior to the Xray. They said it was luckily healing nicely in just the right place but if I had presented myself on the day of the injury they would have cut me open to pin the break. I was advised to take it easy and not do anything strenuous for a while, like riding a bike....
Traffic altercations haven't really featured in my cycling life yet despite by far the most of my riding being an urban commute. My many years as a van delivery driver have given me experience and awareness that seems to allow me to happily co-exist with the most idiotic and dangerous of drivers when out on the bike. Now I have said this I shall no doubt be knocked from my bike at high speed and with terrible injuries before the end of the week!
Downhilling the MTB in my early 20s (Before DH was a separate sport) and while bumping down a rocky farm track half of my handlebar came off in my hand at about 20mph. I was pretty badly beaten up but only flesh wounds so limped off the hill and phoned dad to come and pick me up.
More recently, about 18 months ago tried riding down some irregular old mill steps, again on the MTB. It went wrong and turned into a fall but I must have smacked my knee on the hard stone flags at the bottom. When it was Xrayed 2 weeks later because I was still in pain it was discovered that I had cracked the knee cap straight across. I had been riding my bike to work all the week prior to the Xray. They said it was luckily healing nicely in just the right place but if I had presented myself on the day of the injury they would have cut me open to pin the break. I was advised to take it easy and not do anything strenuous for a while, like riding a bike....
Traffic altercations haven't really featured in my cycling life yet despite by far the most of my riding being an urban commute. My many years as a van delivery driver have given me experience and awareness that seems to allow me to happily co-exist with the most idiotic and dangerous of drivers when out on the bike. Now I have said this I shall no doubt be knocked from my bike at high speed and with terrible injuries before the end of the week!